Can These Programs Tame Your Inbox?

Two new programs are designed to help clean up your inbox. Walt Mossberg joins digits to discuss. Photo: Mailstrom.

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... I ... the forty six thousand emails in your inbox what you might need some help putting up a close-up ... while commit Digits I'm Simon Qassam on the big doubly him self wall last but yes some ways to help you in areas that can help us ... plan now thank you Brian much for being now waltz ... that wonderful sea was always Simon ... now I don't know if you have forty six thousand ... from many miles or even read the email inbox for you looked in two ways ... to cut loss of two different ... methods tell us about that ... okay well first thing you know it is of ... the two programs I reviewed them ... that they try to do this ... are not ... your normal email programs are not meant to be a substitute for outlook or Apple mail ... in terms of sending receiving you know of all I can set the do ... it everyday with your email program ... instead they're meant to use periodic Lee and here's what they do ... they both analyze your inbox and other services that they can work with ... one of one that one of what one improve which is a France's Jean Michel ... said the analyze your inbox ... and they had in the case of one of the which is called maelstrom it will ... find the groupings of e mails like repeat the senders ... who most ... of whom most often up sent things in your email box which could be legitimate but could be ... things you're not interested in anymore ... op or mailing lists or shopping e mails or ... you know I e mails the really old whatever they find that the group things ... you can highlight one of those groupings and just hit a button called the leak and true miracle on their move to the trash folder ... and I ... if they are the type of e-mailed allows you to unsubscribe ... with one click you can both delete them in the unsubscribe from mom ... and so if you spend I see in my first half hour with maelstrom ... I got rid of twenty two thousand ... messages from my G mail ... inbox and it felt ... quite good about the rewards of that smile strum ... on Esprit sophisticated heavy duty whereabouts was all ... silk floral so as old as Swiss was all yes was old at ... its was a little different um ... it's ... not ... a focuses almost entirely on marketing e mails is emails you might get from ... Iron of ... J crew war or best by ... offering deals on things ... we all know that we get these sometimes because we want them and we've signed up ... for a lot of times you can ever remember signing up for that and yet you get it and it tends to clog up your your ... inbox so I also tested out one-time G mail ... and found a bunch of those marking e mails ... I get ... a large and unsubscribe from them ... without you I'm going to the whole process of going back to their website or anything it just takes care that for you ... in to delete them if you don't want them anymore in your inbox ... has another option which is you can take ... those marketing e mails and ... convert them into something called the deal the digests where it sends you wind ... E-mail A da somedays Nona for a new new offers ... that combined with Saipem It and merchants that you want to look at offers from ... they all appear in the same digest E-mail ... that's was all of organizes ... Qantas was also has a ... an odd feature for and decluttering program which is that one should on ... deleting things on subscribing whatever ... and data show you additional marketing e mails you weren't kidding and save you want these will put them in your daily digest them ... I'd to me personally I wasn't very interesting that so ... I e I think of it to ... the ritual I like better was maelstrom but something it's just very focused on marketing e mails and even likes some of those ... might want to take a look it's whistle they both ... did work ... content ... write stuff maelstrom and this was all ... many have more t tell my annual column ... thank you Brian much wall last but the big dough him self ... take your Simon I'm Simon Qassam on and that was digits ...